Introduction 1 JAMES GREGORY AND DANIEL J.R. GREY PART I Representing union and disunion in art 1 To 'purchase union thus cheaply': the controversial statue of an Irish Archbishop in the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament JAMES E.H. FORD 2 Leave or remain? Antidisestablishmentarianism in Margaret Oliphant's Salem Chapel MARGARET MARKWICK PART II Union and disunion in Europe 3 Popular efforts to forge union: the English visit to Paris in April 1849 JAMES GREGORY 4 Rose Blaze de Bury and the 'unfeminine' German and European politics of disunity RACHEL EGLOFF Part III The politics of union and disunion in Great Britain 5 Scottish political leadership and Anglo-Scottish union in the long nineteenth century GORDON PENTLAND 6 An 'lllegal Union of Lawyers, and Writers, and Political Baronets': the Conservative party and Scottish governance, 1832-1868 GARY D. HUTCHISON 7 Union Street: more than simply a metaphor for the coming together of Plymouth's Three Towns? KIM STEVENSON AND JUDITH ROWBOTHAM PART IV Union and disunion in the United States of America 8 The union of enslaved couples during the disunion of the nation: love, discord and separations in US slavery and thereafter EMILY WEST 9 Attempting disunion: Mutable borders and the Mormon experience with the United States, 1846-1858 PEARL T. PONCE 10 The South Carolina jeremiad: reinterpreting John C. Calhoun's legacy in the 1850s LAWRENCE T.

MCDONNELL PART V Family division and union 11 Family union and the discharge of infanticidal married mothers from Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, 1863-1895 ALISON PEDLEY 12 Unity or disunity? The trials of a Jury in R v John William Anderson: Newcastle Winter Assizes 1875 HELEN RUTHERFORD 13 Establishing the poor law unions under the New Poor Law KAREN ROTHERY Index.